AUSTRALIA & PACIFIC from Fortuna Books

Sydney: Cornstalk, 1929 blue decorative cloth with titling, some rubbing wear and edge fraying, top half of fep removed, faint foxing to prelims, second edition completes 4,000 copies total, xix 203pp + plates, early days gold prospecting in New Guinea. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Stanmore: Cassell, 1978 small nick from bottom edge of upper board, minor scuff to edge of upper panel of DW, 304pp photos in b&w and colour, heavy will incur extra postage. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Suva: Government Printing Department, 1951 carce history and survey of this Polynesian peopled island in Melanesia, ix, 127, iii pp, folding map, 22 black and white plates. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

Sydney: ICCM, 1978 VG tidy copy x + 112pp illustrated with B&W photos. Proceeding Of the International Work Shop on the Conservation of Rock Art. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

Jacaranda, 1980 quarter cloth, map end papers, 289pp illustrations, chapters on John Williams, Herman Melville, Walter Murray Gibson, Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin and their quest for fulfillment in the south seas islands. Includes introductory chapter and index. DW small splits or tears at head of spine and top corners. . First Edition. Quarter… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1914 First edition, dated July 1914 from the publishers 31 page catalogue at the rear, RARE and scarce in the wrapper, May Gibbs earliest 'Gumnut' style illustrations, The dust jacket has edge wear and chipping and some short tears, the front fold in flap is missing, both the pasted on illustrations, with May Gibbs art, are… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1900 original pictorial stiff paper wrappers handling soiled, uniformly darkened, light edge wear and corner rubbing, pencil name at head of half title, 2pp adverts, xii, 124 +32pp publishers adverts dated July 1905 +2pp adverts, also inside covers and outside rear cover with adverts, closed edges handling soiled, one minor faint water mark to closed edge… Read more about this item

Perth: Archdiocese of Perth, 1979 unmarked, 278pp. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Sydney: Anthony Horden & Sons sheets folded once and stapled through spine in blue green wrappers, light wear, some minor pencil marks in text, clean used copy, undated, printers code at foot of final page is (292) 160pp. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Suva: Government Printer, 1951 Government Printer. Suva. 1951. pages 334 plus appendices; map, b/w plates; hardcover; lacks d/j, Gift inscription on front endpaper, A Geographical Handbook. Includes: the archipelago, physical structure, the environment, the islands.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

London: John Murray, 1927 large blue cloth, binding loosened, boards rubbed to corners and spine ends, spine ends frayed, lower board creased to outside cloth only. Ex working mens circulating library with plate to front paste down and stamps to endpapers and some in text, one has offset onto plate of Culebra Cut, Panama canal. Lacks two plates… Read more about this item

London: Her Majestys Stationery Office, 1963 bright scarlet cloth, tapa cloth design endpapers, nice DW with a little rubbing / chipping at head, 255pp + plates + folding map at rear. colour frontis. a full survey from discovery to the present. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

lacks title leaf, conjoined leaf detached, lightly rubbed pictorial wrappers, otherwise fine, due to lack of title unsure when published but probably mid 1970s, xvi 270pp illustrated, a guide to Australian bibliographies. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1957 unclipped dust jacket with a few minor holes to front fold from insect damage, one small hole to lower joint also, short edege tear head of front panel, gift inscription to fep, otherwise tidy copy, 122pp+ plates, nurse amongst aborigines in the 1950s. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? -… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1948 tenth edition very clean and tightly bound. 316pp + plates, maps to paste downs. DW complete but with edge wear, splits to parts of the folds, some chipping to spine ends and tear to lower corner of rear panel, little if any actual loss though. The author accompanies a Nor-west Mounted police patrol in… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1934 twelfth edition, brown cloth titled and dec to cover, light wear to edges and joints, colour map andpapers, closed edges foxed, ink inscriptin to reverse of fep dated '35. 306pp + 8 pp adverts + plates. Details the work of John Flynn and the Australian Inland Mission.. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo… Read more about this item

Auckland: Longman Paul, 1969 dust jacket with minor edgewear, short tear head of spine fold, name to fep in pen 159pp + plates, map end papers.. reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Horwitz, 1972 (500 gram rate) two small marks where two staples carefully removed from the fep , otherwise a VG copy in same DW. Centenary of the Holroyd Municipality, Australia. 63pp illustrated.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

Papua New Guinea: Robert Brown and Associates, 1975 owners details to fep, light wear to board edges, joints split at tail, used but tidy copy, b&w illustrations, an animal ABC using local native from Papua New Guinea. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Vali Herzer. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

London: MacMillan, 1901 navy cloth with gilt titling and some blind decoration, lightly rubbed to joints, some mild spotting or mottling, foxed fep with erased inscription, foxed paste downs, rear bottom corner has been chewed a bit but otherwise book is in Good or better condition, 514pp +2 + 8pp adverts, Colonial library issue, title has No.423 printed at… Read more about this item